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  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

Berkley Professor Dara O'Rourke, is at a critical junction. The venture capital-funded company has yet to find the business model to monetize a very promising product that provides consumers and manufacturers with information about the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Roberto Verganti

    Roberto Verganti (rverganti@hbs.edu) is in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Design Theory and Practice for the View Details

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    • July 2022
    • Case

    General Mills: Responding to the Killing of George Floyd (A)

    By: Debora L. Spar and Alicia Dadlani
    Jeff Harmening, CEO of General Mills, one of the world's largest manufacturers of breakfast cereals and packaged foods, was deeply disturbed and instantly aware that he and General Mills would need to respond. George Floyd, an African-American man who had been accused... View Details
    Keywords: Race; Decisions; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Minneapolis; Minnesota; United States
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    • 21 Jul 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: July 21

    http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309114 Purchase the supplement: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309115 HTC Corp. in 2009 Harvard Business School Case 709-466 Taiwan-based HTC Corp. had emerged as the world's fourth... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Curriculum - Case Method Project

    Interstate Commerce Commission; meatpacking; railroads; regulation; regulatory capture; interest groups; food safety; Upton Sinclair; President Theodore Roosevelt; Meat Inspection Act; Food and Drug Act The... View Details
    • 19 Apr 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: April 19

    YudkoffHarvard Business School Case 211-088 Briggs Capital was a regional mergers and acquisitions advisory firm that helped owners sell their small firms. The case presents a company that was for sale in the fall of 2010—a troubled View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

    commitment over 5 years. Full Futures brought together diverse partners across corporate, nonprofit, and school district sectors to address four key pillars: culture, infrastructure, nutrition education, and food access. This case... View Details
    • 02 Feb 2021
    • Blog Post

    Finding My Focus in Health care Amidst a Global Pandemic

    decade, legislators have passed countless health care policies that impact how hospitals, insurance companies and pharmaceutical manufacturers deliver services to patients. Even more, the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has uncovered major... View Details
    • 2015
    • Report

    Clusters and Regional Economies: Implications for the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Region

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels
    The Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Region, covering eight U.S. states and two Canadian provinces located around the lakes and waterways that have given this region its name, is what economic developers call a 'macro region'. It is an area of intensive economic interaction... View Details
    Keywords: Clusters; Regional Policy; Great Lakes; Economic Development; Industry Clusters; Economy; Canada; United States
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    • February 2010 (Revised June 2011)
    • Case

    Zotter Living by Chocolate

    By: Mukti Khaire, Stefan Aichinger, Monika Maria Elisabeth Hoffmann and Maximilian Georg Manfred Schnoedl
    This case is about a boutique chocolate manufacturer's decision to grow. Zotter, an Austrian company that was a pioneer in the organic and Fairtrade chocolate movement, uses the traditional confit technique to make premium hand-scooped chocolates in unusual and... View Details
    Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Austria
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    • August 2005 (Revised April 2006)
    • Case

    Kemps LLC: Introducing Time-Driven ABC

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    Kemps is making a strategy shift: from being focused on fulfilling customer requests to becoming the best cost dairy producer in the industry. Its existing manufacturing cost system, however, fails to capture the costs associated with handling special flavors, small... View Details
    Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Customer Relationship Management; Cost Accounting; Managerial Roles; Cost Management; Earnings Management; Business Strategy; Time Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Decisions; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • 25 Sep 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

    operations. Product failures are, therefore, likely to impact firms’ subsequent innovation activities. Using 13 years of Food and Drug Administration data, we examine the effects of firm and competitor medical device recalls on subsequent... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Video Clips - Creating Emerging Markets

    for patients in their rehabilitation center as well as children at their school, the Institution Tahar Sebti. Duration: 04:36 Hani Berzi Hani Berzi Base Of The Pyramid Hani Berzi, founder and CEO of Egypt-based Edita Food Industries,... View Details
    • 31 Aug 2020
    • Blog Post

    Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap

    research and development process, manufacturing and clinical research strategy as well as offline retail. Hilary has a finance, consumer products and retail background, notably as brand manager of FIJI Water. Most recently, Hilary led... View Details
    • Profile

    Brice Fodouop

    The son of a food and beverage importer based in Cameroon, Brice Fodouop is keenly aware of his nation’s struggle to develop its own consumer goods manufacturing sector. “Many of the View Details
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    I am a field researcher studying the relational nature of work. Organizations are inherently social institutions and provide myriad opportunities for relationship formation. My work begins with the simple insight that all relationships are not equal: interpersonal... View Details
    Keywords: Prosocial Motivation; Feedback; Personal Development; Needs; Organizational Design; Performance Productivity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Networks; Groups and Teams; Family and Family Relationships; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
    • 10 Apr 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

    was a vertically integrated food company with a management system that allowed it to innovate and grow systematically. With sales of $2 billion in 2016, the firm not only produced flour, vegetable oil, and packaged View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Returning to the Roots

    It’s not a role he sought or expected. But when his brother died of a brain tumor late last year, Florent Latour (MBA 1999) became CEO of Maison Louis Latour, a winemaker established in 1797 in the Burgundy region of France. The 11th generation of his family to lead... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; wine; entrepreneurship; family business; innovation; climate change; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
    • 14 Feb 2023
    • HBS Case

    Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

    began selling iron ore and coal to Germany and Great Britain in the early 1800s. When Sweden industrialized in the mid-1800s, Spar says, “it did so quickly and methodically,” adopting the most successful practices from established View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert

      Sophus A. Reinert

      Sophus Reinert is T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of Business Administration and of History in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School and in the History Department and Harvard University. He has won numerous awards... View Details

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